History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v2.c26.297.4

v2.c26.297.4

When in the kalivarjya texts it is said 'these dharmas are declared to be prohibited by the sages in the Kali age' (vide Vyavahāra-mayūkha p. 242), it is not proper to argue that everyone of the practices forbidden in the kali age was valid in former ages. All that is meant seems to be that most of them were allowed in former ages and these along with others enumerated are not to be practised in the Kali age, just as when in a crowd many have umbrellas and a few have not, a speaker still says with reference to the whole crowd ‘chatriṇo gacchanti’ (here go persons with umbrellas).